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IncomeStatementGuy OP t1_ja7ewvh wrote

Reply to comment by vetratten in [OC] How Rolls-Royce makes money: Lots of aftermarket services and tiny profit margins by IncomeStatementGuy

Thanks for the feedback.

My rule was to switch to millions for 0.1B and 0.0B as in these cases the billion digit carries little information compared to the size of the number.

Which exact rule would you use instead?

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wanmoar t1_ja7n06w wrote

You could’ve used either just millions or, if that would make the numbers unclear, use billions but to the second decimal.

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IncomeStatementGuy OP t1_ja82474 wrote

Thanks, I'll play more with these options in my next creation. In general, I like having only a few digits as it makes the numbers quicker to read.

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wanmoar t1_ja83g8v wrote

Is it really quicker to read if people have to do the extra work of checking for the M or B?

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vetratten t1_ja7i7tt wrote

Depends on the data and audience and usually we put in a means to switch between thousands, millions, billions on our dashboards.

For a static like this where the numbers have such a wide range I'm torn as I usually prefer everything to be the same notation. The beauty of the Sankey is you could keep the notation by step. So for instance the far right step being in Millions but the middle step in Billions. It's not perfect by any stretch and I'd still be annoyed that they're not all in billions.

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